How was your gig last night?

[Norris]

Our first time back at the Black Horse in Whitwick since just before Christmas. It was a quiet compared to normal - it's usually rammed. A good, enthusiastic crowd though and much dancing took place. It's a bit of a strange weekend, what with a public holiday last Monday and the VE80 stuff going on.

 

Our little drummer boy is still riddled with bronchitis, so Rob was kind enough to step in again and did a great job. It's so nice to be able to lock in with a good drummer, even if we threw a couple of songs at him out of the blue. We had a great night.

 

Footwear were purple suede Gazelles - they don't come out often. I took the Sire P, going into the usual GT-6B and Rumble 500 combo. My favourite patch at the moment is the Octa-Fuzz which got quite a feature in Born to be Wild amongst others.

 

Only the one photo of the compact stage, dimly lit after we'd finished playing

[Bluewine]

11 minutes ago, Norris said:

Our first time back at the Black Horse in Whitwick since just before Christmas. It was a quiet compared to normal - it's usually rammed. A good, enthusiastic crowd though and much dancing took place. It's a bit of a strange weekend, what with a public holiday last Monday and the VE80 stuff going on.

 

Our little drummer boy is still riddled with bronchitis, so Rob was kind enough to step in again and did a great job. It's so nice to be able to lock in with a good drummer, even if we threw a couple of songs at him out of the blue. We had a great night.

 

Footwear were purple suede Gazelles - they don't come out often. I took the Sire P, going into the usual GT-6B and Rumble 500 combo. My favourite patch at the moment is the Octa-Fuzz which got quite a feature in Born to be Wild amongst others.

 

Only the one photo of the compact stage, dimly lit after we'd finished playing

 

 

I don't know why, however that stage looks " Cavern Clubish " to me.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

On 05/05/2025 at 05:23, neepheid said:

Also - bonus video!

 

 

 

Nice facial expression and hand gesture. 

 

Daryl

[Norris]

4 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

 

I don't know why, however that stage looks " Cavern Clubish " to me.

 

Daryl

It's a long, thin pub. If someone is standing at the bar you would have difficulty getting past them. I quite like the band alcove because on most nights it's the only place you can stand without people trying to get past you while carrying drinks. You do have to back off the bottom end a bit though because it's quite enclosed

[Bluewine]

1 minute ago, Norris said:

It's a long, thin pub. If someone is standing at the bar you would have difficulty getting past them. I quite like the band alcove because on most nights it's the only place you can stand without people trying to get past you while carrying drinks. You do have to back off the bottom end a bit though because it's quite enclosed

 

How was the load in. Did you have to carry gear through the narrow bar area?

 

Daryl

[WalMan]

Not a bad night in Portsmouth but quiet at the venue which was a shame.

 

We were pretty tight having thrown in a few we’ve not played in a while but they went ok despite having played them on the 5 previously and have been using the FrankenJazz with a Hipshot so I was still experimenting with different positions and flipping between E and D to fit which led to a few errors in position when dropped.  Worst for me was the end of Rollin’ In The Deep when I got songs muddled and was playing (in our tuning) D-E-F#-E-D instead of F#-E-D-E-F#. Guitarist said after “I thought you were going for different inversions but actually it ended up as the “jazz” version.

 

Sound was good from where I was and at one point vox came over to me, nodded at my rig and said “oooo that sounds awesome” … he was right, it did 😁

 

Annoyingly I’m still waiting both for my new IEM’s with a new mold for a hopefully better fit, and the old ones repaired after one side stopped working ☹️ Meant I had to use the KZ’s I picked up as spares. I haven’t managed to get a good fit so the sound from them is never as good as the molded set, but it was better than nowt. I ended up one in / one out which was ok.

 

On stage the sound seemed well balanced. Hopefully out front was the same!

[Norris]

3 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

How was the load in. Did you have to carry gear through the narrow bar area?

 

Daryl

No, there's a side door into the band area and we parked right outside. Couldn't have been much easier!

[Bluewine]

23 hours ago, Bluewine said:

Acoustic gig. We played a Community Service Award Event tonight.

 

Strictly background stuff. We played a 45 minute set and " walk on" music for the award winners.

 

Nothing to share, other than it was an easy gig. A 5 minute commute for me. I think we probably sounded pretty good in the house .

 

The full Maple Road band plays Saturday night. Were going back in time a doing a late night bar gig. We haven't done a bar gig in years.

 

Daryl

 

 

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My concerns. We've never played there before, It's a late night bar gig and I'm 71. At my age I'm just not comfortable being out at night in a bar even though I'm technically working there.

 

I'm not sure if this place is known for having live music. I'm sure I'll have stories tomorrow. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

7 minutes ago, Norris said:

No, there's a side door into the band area and we parked right outside. Couldn't have been much easier!

 

Nice, it's no fun lugging gear through a narrow galley bar area. I know, I've done it.

 

Daryl